"And it follows that I am, because you are: it follows from 'you are', that I am, and we: and, because of love, you will, I will, we will, come to be."
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"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
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"Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter."
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"At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain."
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"We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers."
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"And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world."
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"Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive"
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"You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true."
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"I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen."
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"We must dream our way."
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"so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."
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"Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude."
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"This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey — we need our hands to wash with, to make fire."
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"Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, and a genital fire, transformed by delight, slips through the narrow channels of blood to precipitate a nocturnal carnation, to be, and be nothing but light in the dark."
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"Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart."
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"A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly."
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"Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords."
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"There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle."
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"Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow."
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"Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry."
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